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• Parkinson’s disease – causes and remedial measures

  
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  As one gets older in terms of age, one needs to take extra care and attention of his or her body to enjoy a healthy life. One of the many diseases that might develop and subsequently affect the later years is the Parkinson’s disease. Normally, this disease can develop and subsequently affect a [...]Related posts: ...
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• How Sunlight Could Prevent Alzheimer’s and Cancer

  
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  In part one of this series on Vitamin D, Dr. Frank addresses the epidemic of vitamin D deficiency: 30 to 100 percent of Americans don’t get enough of this crucial hormone. This deficiency can play a role in almost every major disease including 17 kinds of cancer, MS, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. He explains that ...
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• Modfied HIV Delivered Gene Therapy Could Treat Many Diseases

  
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  In a pilot study of two patients monitored for two years, an international team of researchers slowed the onset of the debilitating brain disease X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) using a lentiviral vector to introduce a therapeutic gene into patients blood cells. Although studies with larger cohorts of patients ...
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• Hope For Possible Parkinsons Disease Cure From ISU Researchers Findings

  
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  Researchers at Iowa State University have found an essential key to possibly cure Parkinsons disease and are looking for others. Anumantha Kanthasamy, a distinguished professor of biomedical sciences and W. Eugene and Linda R.
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• New findings may help cure Parkinson’s disease

  
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  Parkinson’s disease strikes around 50,000 people each year, and there are approximately 1 million people with the disease. Till now there is no cure for this disease. But now, researchers at Iowa State University have found an essential key that may help them find ways to cure Parkinson’s disease.Anumantha ...
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• Tests Can Detect Early Dementia: Study

  
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  Early dementia can be detected using memory and language tests, say British researchers. read more
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• The distinct cognitive syndromes of Parkinson’s disease: 5 year follow-up of the CamPaIGN cohort

  
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  Cognitive abnormalities are common in Parkinson’s disease, with important social and economic implications. Factors influencing their evolution remain unclear but are crucial to the development of targeted therapeutic strategies. We have investigated the development of cognitive impairment and dementia in ...
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• Hope for Possible Parkinsons Disease Cure

  
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  Researchers at Iowa State University have found an essential key to possibly cure Parkinsons disease and are looking for others.
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• Less Invasive Stereotactic Radiosurgery As Effective In Eliminating Parkinsons Disease Tremors As Other Treatments

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 739
  Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) offers a less invasive way to eliminate tremors caused by Parkinsons disease and essential tremor than deep brain stimulation (DBS) and radiofrequency (RF) treatments, and is as effective, according to a long-term study presented November 2, 2009, at the 51st Annual Meeting of the ...
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• Paths to meaning, salvaging quality of life with PD

  
  Off and On: The Alaska Parkinson's Rag — Authority: 396
  Parkinsons Disease is no walk in the park. Unless your park is home to a mysterious debilitating assailant who steals up to you and attempts to slowly rob you of your life. Diagnosis is devastating to the person getting the verdict. The words "Disease" "progressive" and "incurable" are toxic enough when used ...
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• Are You Vitamin D Deficient?

  
  Healthy and Green Living — Authority: 612
  In part one of this series, Dr. Frank addresses the epidemic of vitamin D deficiency: 30 to 100 percent of Americans don’t get enough of this crucial hormone. This deficiency can play a role in almost every major disease including 17 kinds of cancer, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. This article answers questions ...
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• Progression Of Parkinsons Disease May Be Prevented By Widely Used Cholesterol-Lowering Drug

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 739
  Simvastatin, a commonly used, cholesterol-lowering drug, may prevent Parkinsons disease from progressing further. Neurological researchers at Rush University Medical Center conducted a study examining the use of the FDA-approved medication in mice with Parkinsons disease and found that the drug successfully reverses ...
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• Dangers of Vitamin D Deficiency

  
  Healthy and Green Living — Authority: 612
  It is estimated that anywhere from 30 to 100 percent of Americans, depending upon their age and community living environments, are deficient in Vitamin D. More than half of all American children are vitamin deficient. Supposedly almost 75 percent of pregnant women are vitamin D deficient, predisposing their unborn ...
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• Unlocking mysteries of the brain with PET

  
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• Widely used cholesterol-lowering drug may prevent progression

  
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  (CHICAGO) ?Simvastatin, a commonly used, cholesterol-lowering drug, may prevent Parkinsons disease from progressing further.
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• Anti-Epilepsy Drugs Could Treat Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Diseases

  
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  Miami, FL (AHN) – Researchers in the United States say that drugs designed to treat epilepsy could also be effective in treating neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. The researchers, with Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., said in a statement that neurons in the brain were ...
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• Remembrance of Things Past: Fetal Tissue Transplantation and Parkinsons Disease

  
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  I n a recent article in Science magazine, Constance Holden reports that European researchers are contemplating a revival of fetal tissue transplantation for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease. As the article recounts, fetal transplants were subjected to sham controlled studies in the late ...
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• Epilepsy drugs could treat Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s

  
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  Researchers in the USA have discovered a potential new function for anti-epileptic drugs in treating neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. The study, published in BioMed Central’s open access journal Molecular Neurodegeneration , found that neurons in the brain were protected ...
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• Impax Pharmaceuticals Initiates Second Phase III Trial Of IPX066 In Parkinsons Disease

  
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  Impax Pharmaceuticals, the brand products division of Impax Laboratories, Inc. (NASDAQ:IPXL), announced that it has initiated a multinational Phase III trial of its late-stage drug candidate IPX066 in advanced Parkinsons disease (PD) patients.
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• Scientists Zero in on Brains Stopwatch

  
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  (HealthDay News) -- Researchers say theyve discovered collections of brain cells that may play a role in how the body maintains the precision timing involved in things like playing the piano and driv read more
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